There are no doubt people who will love it for being a showy piece of nonsense, and there is some entertaining, high impact action, but it's far from the genius some critics are praising it as. Imagine the most indulgent ideas from Guy Ritchie and Tarantino's trash bin channeled through a Justin Bieber video. Everyone in the film is pretty, none of the gangsters really look like gangsters, least of all the Latina 'Darling', who can't even hold a gun convincingly and is just there to show cleavage and lick her lips at camera. While there are some splendid car chase sequences (too few in my book), one must endure cringey moments of Baby miming and dancing to James Brown, dull characters waxing poetic about song lyrics and saying cliché bull$hit like "Sometimes all I want to do is head west on the 20 in a car I can't afford with a plan I don't have". Unfortunately the songs didn't make the hackneyed screenplay that much more interesting. Since Baby is constantly plugged into his i-pod (so, we are told, to drown out tinnitus from a car accident which killed his parents), the film essentially plays like one giant music video, with nearly every gunshot, tire screech and sassy put down edited meticulously with the beats or riffs of whatever track is playing during the sequence. The main mechanic, so lauded by critics, is that everything in the film revolves around music, from the editing to the dialogue.
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The annoyingly slick, Abercrombie-faced "Baby" is not only the fastest getaway driver in Atlanta, we later find out he's also a self-taught music producer, dancer and talented free-runner.are you rolling your eyes yet? The central premise is about a young, good-at-heart kid forced into a life of crime in order to pay off a debt. It's like that yappy drama society kid at college who is so consciously trying to act cool by breaking into song, dancing around chairs, drumming on desks and spitting jokey one-liners with a hand pistol flourish.the kind of person a cynical SOB like me just wants to punch in the throat. "Baby Driver" is showy, cliché-ridden and irritatingly self-aware. Reviewed by Deathstryke 5 /10 A film so in love with itself, it needs its own cinema seat Baby's deaf foster dad had more lines (sign language) than Bernthal, yet he's not considered a main character.
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Oh and Jon Bernthal is only in the movie for about 10 minutes, so not sure why he was given top billing, when he's pretty much just an extra with a couple of lines. Superhuman villains in a non-superhero movie tend to ruin the whole thing.ĭoc remaining in the place from where the heist was launched at risk of being caught for no reason (even though he knew it was botched) made no sense, just like his sudden change of heart in "helping" Baby made no sense. Then Buddy shows up again later after getting shot in the chest. There is no way Buddy would have been able to escape all those cops swarming him downtown. It's a given that being in debt to a crime boss means your debt will never really be cleared, so that's okay for a movie.Īnd you can suspend disbelief for driving physics and non-deploying airbags.ĭoc sending the third crew to meet with arms dealers was totally unnecessary for the job they had the next day, because they already had all the equipment they needed, so that whole scene was forced just for a plot device.īats proved he was willing to kill for no reason, so there's really no reason he would have left Joe alive. It ends up being just a variation of "The Last Ride" (2004).
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The movie could have gone in several different and more fulfilling directions, but it went full cheese instead. It started out great, but it began to fall apart rapidly just after the halfway mark.Ī more complicated plot could have developed, but the second half just seems rushed. Reviewed by fb123 5 /10 Starts out great, falls apart halfway through